School: Ballyhack Convent
- Location:
- Baile Hac, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: An tSr Treasa
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- (continued from previous page)a strange sight at our local fairs and markets when these dark haired, hard featured strangers would move around asking the natives the price of their sheep and kine in a barbarous jargon known as lowland Scotch. We had Jocks and Jeanies, Sandys, and Alixs, Robs and Jamies moving around among the Mikes and Pats, whom they were going to supplant and not a hair of their heads were hurted and yet at that time the Irish were denounced by their enemies as a blood thirsty race.There were two great figures who came on the scene at this time and checkmated the Scotch plantation scheme. They were, the Rev. Father Codd and the late Canon Doyle. They grappled with Knox like two wolf-dogs and they did pull him down. Canon(continues on next page)
